Okay. So. Jane Eyre is my most very favourite book of the classic genre. I love everything about it. I have a few copies at my house. I am not sure why. I just love the book so much I tend to buy a copy when I see it. It is that good, as far as I am concerned.
I also have a stack of classic tomes lined up for future reading. I am collecting for my retirement (when I am 85) and the years in between. It is a very long term plan, granted, but it is my excuse for not having much time for reading at the moment. I will get to them, someday, I will. Maybe I will be eating (pitted) cherries and admiring my crepey skin and sipping Pimms and looking out over a green valley somewhere, but get to them I will.
I was wondering, though, what are your most favourite books, in the classic literature department? I know that Penguin have released lots of their classics and modern classics in those lovely orange and white editions. Personally I like bigger print (glasses anyone?!) and a bigger volume than those. But maybe you are collecting those? Or the older more colourful versions...? Or maybe you have those collectable libraries on your bookshelf : the ones that are bound in leather? Or the newfangled pretty clothbound kind of classics? I saw some cute MINI versions of the classics at Reader's Feast yesterday. They had the gold edged pages. Those were lovely too.
So....! Please do give me your recommendations for old-fashioned, delicious books that should be added to my reading pile. And why you like them. Please do!
xx Pip
